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The Asian Coal Benchmarks and Risk Management

Our latest publication "Asian Coal Benchmarks and Risk Management Report” is a must read for everyone who would like to get a thorough overview and understanding of the evolution of the Asian Coal market dynamics, benchmark indices and risk management instruments.

The Asian physical Coal market is now the world’s biggest coal market. However, so far the financial coal market did not follow suit, despite the launch of a couple of regional coal indices like API 8 and 5 and the Indonesian Sub-bituminous FOB marker.

The big question is will Asian coal derivatives trading in risk management instruments like Swaps and Futures actually become substantial?

In this report we review the current status of the market and take a look at its potential future evolution. Besides we explain how these derivative instruments and other issues related to financial coal trading does work.